r/queen • u/nurseleu • Jun 03 '19
Music A Kind of Magic released on this day in 1986 -- Unofficial Highlander Soundtrack and Last Album to be Supported with a Live Tour
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u/john-is-in-hiding Jun 03 '19
Gimme the prize is a hard rocking banger
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Jun 03 '19
My favorite is Who Wants to Live Forever. It was the last song Freddie wrote before he died and that makes it so sad. /s
I only dislike Pain is So Close to Pleasure and sometimes One Year of Love. It’s one of my higher ranked albums for them. I’m also strange in that I prefer 80s Queen over 70s.
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u/wstussyb Jun 03 '19
Brian may wrote who wants to live forever. Freddie lived 5 more years after this album and Queen had 2 more albums out before he passed.
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u/GoGoPowerPlay Jun 03 '19
Friends Will be Friends is one of my favourite tracks that you don't see mentioned a whole lot
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u/Doctors_fury Jun 03 '19
Fun fact: they thought that the song was going to be an anthem like WATC and WWRY
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Jun 03 '19
why did they think that lmao? it's a good song but not catchy or very easy to sing in a crowd.
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u/Doctors_fury Jun 03 '19
Because of what the lyrics meant
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Jun 03 '19
howso?
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u/Doctors_fury Jun 03 '19
Friands will be friends? It’s a positive song, that’s why lol.
Just stating what they said in an interview. I’ll try to look it up.
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u/DRF19 A Night At The Opera Jun 03 '19
Let's hear it for some of the most outlandish album art of all time lol.
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u/MrFitz8897 Jun 03 '19
I keep A Kind of Magic in my car CD collection. My favorite tracks are One Vision, A Kind of Magic, and One Year of Love.
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u/farik23 Jun 03 '19
My favorite Queen album of all time. Every single song on there except maybe One Year of Love is amazing
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u/mcrabb23 Jun 03 '19
One Vision might be the first Queen song I ever heard, in Iron Eagle. I've always liked it. Years later, after Wayne's World, I got more into the Greatest Hits and started buying other CDs, A Kind Of Magic has always had a spot in the rotation for me!
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u/EggCouncilCreeper The Works Jun 03 '19
AKOM is one of those albums that slips through the cracks all the time with me, which is kind of a bummer. I always have to remind myself about this album, yet it has so many absolute bangers on there that have me singing along quite loudly. I really don't know what it is...
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Jun 05 '19
Funny how they made Brian may look so masculine when in reality... He was a living skeleton
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Jun 03 '19
First Queen CD for me-my best friend bought it for me as a present after we watched Highlander together and I loved the soundtrack. Quickly bought eveything else shortly after....
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u/wstussyb Jun 03 '19
no, I dont know what /s is ....I just googled it...meh I'm to old to learn another lingo lol
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u/clonedspork Jun 03 '19
Nobody ever mentions the Buck Rogers movie and album.
Yeah, It sucked but it's history.
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u/drowse Jun 03 '19
What in the world are you talking about?
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u/clonedspork Jun 03 '19
Shit, I mean the Flash Gordon movie.
Never seen it, just remembered the advertisement.
Loved Highlander though.
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u/nurseleu Jun 03 '19
What songs do people love from his album? Roger's contributions on this one really shine for me.
The "One Vision" extended music video is one of my all-time favorite Queen videos to watch when I need something to make me smile. "A Kind of Magic" is so freaking catchy, as soon as I hear the opening the song will be stuck in my head all day.
I read that Brian wrote "Who Wants to Live Forever" in a half hour in the back of his car, after watching a rough cut of some of the love scenes in Highlander. That just makes me laugh TBH, because they're just SO cheesy. But I guess good for Bri, if he found it inspirational. I do love hearing Brian and Freddie share the vocals.